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Building chips skyscraper style
With the aim of boosting electronic performance by factor of a thousand, a team of researchers led by Stanford University engineers have created a skyscraper-like chip design, based on materials more advanced than silicon.
For many years, computer systems have been designed with processors and memory chips laid out like single-story structures in a suburb whe... » read more

Mentor Graphics CEO Wally Rhines, a materials scientist, talks with Dr. Sean Carroll, a particle physicist at the California Institute of Technology about the discovery of the Higgs Boson, the cost of future discoveries, and what's left for physicists to discover.
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